A 39-year-old member asked:
Are acepromazine and ketamine similar?
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Dr. Gary Ritholzanswered
Anesthesiology 31 years experience
No: Aceprimazine is closely related to Chlorpromazine and is a veterinary drug. These drugs in humans are antipsychotic medications. Ketamine is not relate at all to theses drugs. It is in its own class and causes dissociative anesthesia.
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Dr. Pamela Pappasanswered
Psychiatry 43 years experience
No: Acepromazine and ketamine can both be used as animal anesthetics, but they are not the same drug. Ketamine is a nonbarbiturate anesthetic, and acepromazine is a phenothiazine related to thorazine (chlorpromazine) ( the first human antipsychotic agent discovered). Sometimes veterinarians may use the 2 of these drugs together.
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Last updated Jul 10, 2015
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